5S - Housekeeping Overview and Implementation Training Kit specially designed to meet your 5S housekeeping on-site training program. Training helps assure that everyone in the organization or on the 5S team has the same baseline understanding of the 5S process. The logic behind the 5S practices is that organization, neatness, cleanliness, standardization and self-discipline at the workplace can help production of high quality products and delivery of high quality services with little or no waste, and with high productivity.

5S training can also be motivational and inspire people to take the first step toward better organization in the workplace. Often the reason that work areas become disorganized is because people working in the area have not allowed themselves the time to designate a place for everything and then make sure that everything is in it's place.

Everyone in the work area and in the organization must be involved in the 5S effort, creating best practices and then getting everyone to "copy" those best practices the same way, everywhere, and every time. Work area layouts and storage techniques should be standardized wherever possible.

More so than any other training that we do, people tell us that they are motivated to not only use what they have learned about 5S on their job, but also in their personal lives. With that kind of warm reception for 5S training, the benefits of training are obvious. After all, if it was easy and didn't require training, people would already be practicing 5S methodology.

Cleanliness involves housekeeping efforts, improving the appearance of the work area, and even more importantly, preventive housekeeping - keeping the work area from getting dirty, rather than just cleaning it up after it becomes dirty. Eventually the cleaning task becomes so monumental that people don't know where to start and it is easier to put it off for one more day. 5S training legitimizes taking the time to get organized.

With its universal appeal, 5S can be effectively implemented in any organization from any business sector. You may carry out the 5S training and implementation separately or as part of ISO 9001:2008 / Lean Manufacturing / Six Sigma implementation. The 5S has become the way of doing business not only to impress the customers but also to establish effective quality processes as prerequisites for good products and services.